About the 2020 Law School Rankings by Median Salary

Published in spring 2019, the salary statistics in
PublicLegal's 2020 Raw Data Law School Rankings by Median Salary
report are those of full-time, long-term employed law graduates for the class of 2017 at the time of graduation and within ten months after graduation (approximately spring 2018), as self-reported by the graduates.

The salaries indicated under the heading
“Median Salary Private”
reflect those salaries of the 50th percentile, among those graduates working in private practice as law firm associates. The salaries indicated under the heading
“Median Salary Public”
reflect those salaries of the 50th percentile, among those graduates working in government jobs or judicial clerkships at the federal or state level.

In determining median salaries, jobs classified as “JD advantage” have been excluded (i.e., positions in which the employer requires a JD or considers it an advantage to hold such a degree, but in which admission to the bar is not required).

The rationale behind entitling this report as the “2020” report is that our
2020 Law School Rankings
report and
2020 Law School Profiles
are of considerable interest to prospective law school applicants who seek to enroll in classes commencing in fall 2020. At the time of our publication of this report in spring 2019, these employment statistics reflected the most current data available.

Source: The data have been compiled from a variety of sources, including from data released publicly by the law schools.

Next Release: Our 2021 report is slated for publication in spring 2020.

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